Warriors guard Klay Thompson said after Wednesday’s game it would be last one wearing Nike shoes.

That’s because Thompson is on the verge of beginning his new shoe deal with Anta, moving on with a Chinese company looking to make a dent in the market. Thompson is scheduled to hold a press conference today in New York in advance of All-Star weekend to announce a “major brand partnership.”

What would a deal with Anta look like? Pictured above is one of the variety of personalized shoes that Thompson will wear, featuring his No. 11.

Thompson’s press conference comes at the same time backcourt mate Stephen Curry is a few miles away in New York launching the sale of his signature shoe, the Curry One by Under Armour.

The decision to have Thompson start was made by Kerr, who by virtue of the Warriors’ top record in the Western Conference was appointed to coach the All-Star squad. Houston’s James Harden was also named a starter, as Kerr needed replacements for injured players Kobe Bryant and Blake Griffin.

“I think it makes a lot of sense to start both Klay and Harden,” Kerr said. “They’re the two best shooting guards in the league this year I think, and they’ve both earned it.”

The Warriors will have two starters in the All-Star game for the first time since Rick Barry and Nate Thurmond were in the lineup in 1967.

“It’s an indication of how far we’ve come,” Kerr said.

Said Curry: “I think it’s kind of a cool deal to have Warriors representation and for Klay to start and have some fun.”

Kerr isn’t done making moves yet. He’ll have to make another decision on the lineup after New Orleans’ Anthony Davis announced he would forgo the All-Star game in order to rest his sprained shoulder.

NEW YORK – They hung banners of Stephen Curry outside of Madison Square Garden in advance of the All-Star game and his game against the Knicks.

They cheered him as lineups were announced. They crowded around him in the locker room after the Warriors’ 106-92 win Saturday.

New York loves it some Curry, and even though it shouldn’t have come to it, he put on a show in the end.

Curry hit five 3-pointers, one of which came while being fouled and two of them coming late in the game when the Warriors needed him most. He went 8 for 18 from the field, grabbed six rebounds and two steals.

Afterward, Curry spoke of championships expectations, of what the Warriors could have done better rather than basking in the spotlight.

“The way that it happened, we were helping them by turning the ball over, giving them open shots,” Curry said of the Knicks.

The game was too close for comfort for the Warriors, but they made the big plays in the end thanks to Curry.

That’s nothing unusual. It just can’t be consistently that way in the playoffs, and Curry knows it.

ATLANTA – Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he doesn’t think about the idea that he could see Atlanta in the NBA Finals.

“That’s so far away, and there are so many things that can happen,” Kerr said.

But there was nothing during the Hawks’ 124-116 win that succeeded in holding serve on their home court that made that vision a farfetched one.

The Warriors played well in spurts and were beaten. The Hawks can shoot it as advertised , giving the Warriors a dose of their own medicine. The Warriors kept fighting and afterward did a collective, figurative nod at the punch the Hawks threw in anticipation of maybe some future games to come.

“They’re the best team in the East and the best team in the league along with us,” center Andrew Bogut said. “It was always going to be a battle. We weren’t expecting to come in here and win by 20, so we know we have work to do…We’ll see them again soon.”

As part of the pre-game customary opposing coach fluff, Rick Carlisle was asked to assess the Warriors’ All-Star backcourt of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson. He laid it on thick.

“We’ve never seen better shooters than these guys ever in this game,” Carlisle said, among other glowing verbal bouquets.

Unfortunately for Carlisle, his words proved prophetic. Even after Dallas had their best first quarter of the season — 42 points — and held a 22-point lead at one early juncture, 40-18, you just had a feeling this was the kind of swat in the nose that would get the Splash Brothers going.

And oh, did they splash. The Warriors made 19 of 38 3-point attempts (50 percent), and Curry and Thompson made 14 of them on just 26 tries. Curry, of course, made 10 himself and was 6-for-7 in his 26-point third quarter. He had another corner three nullified by an Andrew Bogut foul. Everything about Curry’s big night is in the game story here.

So we’ve had two third quarters for the ages in less than a month, and speaking of which, how does James Harden win NBA Player of the Month over Thompson when Thompson won Player of the Week twice, had the individual game of the season so far and the quarter for all time? Guess the league has to spread some of the love around, but really now.